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Recent Examples of unabsorbed
This can reduce the amount of the nutrient that enters your bloodstream, with the unabsorbed portion passing through your digestive system.
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Lauren Manaker, SELF, 23 Mar. 2026
Bacterial Imbalances Iron supplements, especially unabsorbed iron, can change the balance of bacteria in your gut.
—Emmanuella Ogbonna, Health, 31 Oct. 2025
The blood-red remnant seen on cloth is visible due to the leftover light wavelengths that remain unabsorbed by the condiment’s chemical composition.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2025
Orlistat can cause digestive problems because unabsorbed fat passes into and lingers in the colon.
—Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The company reported a net income of $95 million for the quarter, compared to $58 million in the previous year, with the increase attributed to higher volumes and lower unabsorbed costs.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 12 Nov. 2024
University of Vienna's Lukas Kenner theorizes that clumps of concentrated, unabsorbed antibiotics attached to the surface of nanoplastics could provide the perfect breeding ground for bacteria to become resistant to the medication.
—Joe Salas, New Atlas, 3 Nov. 2024
Supplements provide high doses of magnesium at one time, which can lead to excessive unabsorbed magnesium.
—Elizabeth Barnes, Verywell Health, 17 Sep. 2024
Even worse, photons with less energy than the bandgap cannot do anything productive at all, and simply pass through the semiconductor unabsorbed.
—Tracy H. Schloemer, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Sep. 2023
Lauren Manaker, SELF, 23 Mar. 2026
Bacterial Imbalances Iron supplements, especially unabsorbed iron, can change the balance of bacteria in your gut.
—Emmanuella Ogbonna, Health, 31 Oct. 2025
The blood-red remnant seen on cloth is visible due to the leftover light wavelengths that remain unabsorbed by the condiment’s chemical composition.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2025
Orlistat can cause digestive problems because unabsorbed fat passes into and lingers in the colon.
—Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The company reported a net income of $95 million for the quarter, compared to $58 million in the previous year, with the increase attributed to higher volumes and lower unabsorbed costs.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 12 Nov. 2024
University of Vienna's Lukas Kenner theorizes that clumps of concentrated, unabsorbed antibiotics attached to the surface of nanoplastics could provide the perfect breeding ground for bacteria to become resistant to the medication.
—Joe Salas, New Atlas, 3 Nov. 2024
Supplements provide high doses of magnesium at one time, which can lead to excessive unabsorbed magnesium.
—Elizabeth Barnes, Verywell Health, 17 Sep. 2024
Even worse, photons with less energy than the bandgap cannot do anything productive at all, and simply pass through the semiconductor unabsorbed.
—Tracy H. Schloemer, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Sep. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unabsorbed
Adjective
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Cardoso and Williams were both absent from the first day of training camp while completing duties for their overseas teams.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Apr. 2026
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This entire conversation might have concluded two years ago if the voters whose support the Royals required hadn’t viewed the details as a combination of absent, confusing or shifting.—
Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
17 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Sometimes the album feels like an abstracted version of electro-acoustic jazz in the ’80s, when the frontline instrumentation of traditional jazz was still intact but the tools for rhythm had changed completely.—
Mark Richardson,
Pitchfork,
12 Mar. 2026
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She’s partnered with The Vault on a one-of-one set that’s the epitome of her ethos, a style built on an abstracted lotus flower.—
Mark Ellwood,
Robb Report,
17 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Trump—fixated on securing his legacy with a ballroom and a triumphal arch—appears increasingly erratic, unfocused, and unfit for the job assigned to him.—
John Whitehead,
Oc Register,
23 Apr. 2026
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Ambiguous discussions feel unfocused.—
Rick Burton,
Sportico.com,
15 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Quiet Dell is about death, death, death and death, in a lost time, with so many aspects of dark Gothic fairy tale—that were actually true.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Apr. 2026
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These included major studio films and smaller independent projects to limited TV series, along with lost earnings from endorsements, speaking gigs and personal appearances.—
Lauryn Overhultz,
FOXNews.com,
21 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Aasif Mandvi and Christopher Fitzgerald barely register as Jane and Julia’s oblivious husbands, while Consuelos, who plays Maurice as a suave cuckolder with a dodgy European accent, should probably stick to daytime TV.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
20 Apr. 2026
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Then, 15 meters later, a clueless cameraman stepped onto lane 1 from the infield, oblivious to the approaching pack.—
Scott M. Reid,
Oc Register,
19 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Drivers who are inattentive or distracted, or who follow too closely, are more likely to have rear-end crashes, according to NHTSA research.—
Gretchen Wittenmyer-Stone,
Sacbee.com,
21 Apr. 2026
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Production designer Nikhil Kovale and his team followed, and the background extras were coached in the inattentive, overlapping business of real hearings rather than the rapt pantomime standard to Bollywood courtroom scenes.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
17 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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There’s something winningly absent-minded about Gosling’s performance here.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
20 Mar. 2026
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The show offered her five more episodes—her rent for the year—and the absent-minded waitress became a recurring character named Ursula.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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SpaceX, the dominant player in the burgeoning commercial space market, is running behind on its huge lunar lander and is more distracted than ever with an initial sale of shares to the public that could raise as much as $75 billion.—
Thomas Black,
Mercury News,
24 Apr. 2026
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Experts say large gatherings — from Fiesta events to packed Spurs watch parties — can create the kind of close-quarters environment where bad actors may try to take advantage of distracted crowds.—
Jacob Beltran,
San Antonio Express-News,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Unabsorbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unabsorbed. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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